Author: Jane Rogers MatthewsPublisher:
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
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My East Texas Family
Author: Jane Rogers MatthewsPublisher:
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
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An East Texas Family’s Civil War
Author: John T. WhatleyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080717131X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family’s Civil War, the Whatleys’ great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy’s letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.
East Texas Family Records
Author: East Texas Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
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East Texas family records
Author: Glen Robert JohnsonEast Texas Family Records Vol. 3
Author: East Texas Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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East Texas Family Records
Author: East Texas genealogical society (Corp. Author)Publisher:
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Quarterly,winter 1978-Winter 1979; Former: Semiannual, 1978. v. 1.; v.; ill.; 28 cm.
East Texas Family Records Vol. 9
Author: East Texas Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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East Texas Family Records
Author: East Texas Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
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East Texas Family Records
Author: East Texas Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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East Texas Family Records Vol. 7, Nos. 2 & 4
Author: East Texas Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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